rename a collection

[ji...@ruminate.co.uk]

wondering if anyone has a method of renaming a collection, which may also contain nested collections and documents...cant seem to find anything straightforward ?

tia, Jim Fuller

Re: rename a collection

[Wouter de Vaal <wo...@hotmail.com>]

> jim.fuller@ruminate.co.uk wrote:
>
> >wondering if anyone has a method of renaming a collection, which may also
contain nested collections and documents...cant seem to find anything
straightforward ?
> >
> >
>
> There is no API call to rename a collection; what you can try though is
> to manually create nested collection structure as necessary, shutdown
> database, and copy all the files from old collections over to new
> locations. This might work, no guarantees though - backup before you try
> this.
>
Or how about using a generated name for the collection as it occurs on disk
and using a meta-data attribute to store the human-readable name for the
collection? This way you can change the name anytime you want to.
Downside is that you will have to read the meta-data each time you want to
open a collection by name.

Wouter

Re: rename a collection

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>]

jim.fuller@ruminate.co.uk wrote:

>wondering if anyone has a method of renaming a collection, which may also contain nested collections and documents...cant seem to find anything straightforward ?
>  
>

There is no API call to rename a collection; what you can try though is 
to manually create nested collection structure as necessary, shutdown 
database, and copy all the files from old collections over to new 
locations. This might work, no guarantees though - backup before you try 
this.

Vadim